Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.
Christ holds the ministers of the gospel in His right hand, directs their every motion, fills them with light, and keeps them from falling. He walks in the midst of His churches in intimate presence, caring for both pastors and people with the same constant attention He gives to the stars.
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Commenting on Revelation 2:1-7
And hast borne,.... Not evil men, nor false apostles, but "burdens", as the Ethiopic version reads, and as the word signifies; meaning afflictions, reproaches, and persecutions, which pressed sore, and lay heavy on these ministers and churches; and yet they bore them with constancy and cheerfulness, and were not moved by them.
Verse 3. And hast borne. Hast borne up under trials; or hast borne with, the evils with which you have been assailed. That is, you have not given way to murmuring or complaints in trial; you have not abandoned the principles of truth and yielded to the prevalence of error. And hast patience. That is, in this connexion, hast shown that thou canst bear up under these things with patience.